Sid Salter: Bo Robinson, Appointed to PSC After Jarring Corruption Scandals, Dies at Age 90

Salter: Bo Robinson, appointed to PSC after jarring corruption scandals, dies at age 90

Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter: Columnist Sid Salter remembers Robinson, a distinguished veteran of county, state, and district politics in Mississippi, who passed away peacefully at his residence in Hamilton on May 26.

Sid Salter: Bo Robinson, appointed to PSC after jarring corruption scandals, dies at age 90

STARKVILLE — After a season of unprecedented corruption involving elected Mississippi Public Service Commissioners in the late 1980s, then-Democratic Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus faced the task of appointing a successor in 1989 to fill the unexpired term of Northern District Commissioner D.W. Snyder of Eupora, following his trial and conviction on federal charges of extortion, filing false tax returns, bribery, and conspiracy. Snyder had been …